Balding Nevis
Place Imperatives of an Invisible Cohort within Tasmania's Forest Communities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5877373 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pete Hay (University of Tasmania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 224-233 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1745-5863 • E-ISSN: 1745-5871 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2008.00512.x |
| OpenAlex | W2107380414 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 13 |
An under-recognised cohort within Tasmania's forest communities is identified, one that shares the social and cultural background of Timber Communities Australia's constituency, but holding deeply antipathetic views toward current forest regimes. Deploying ethnographic data gathered in the upper North Esk country in Tasmania's North-Eastern Tiers, where this cohort seems to predominate, the elements of a deep attachment to place are explicated: these include a desire to return to a past local economy based upon small but labour-intensive sawmills with viable satellite hamlets, and a concern for water quality, for the integrity of forest ecosystems, and for the wellbeing of individual plant and animal species therein. Overwhelmed by a sense of powerlessness, lacking political skills, and distressed by the dramatic economic and environmental changes within their community, this cohort is unlikely to organise politically, and is likely to remain relatively voiceless within the fraught dynamics of local politics within riven forest communities. Nevertheless, this 'third cohort' suggests wider issues for the politics of place. Its worldview constitutes a potent contemporary articulation of 'the moral economy', as described in the 1970s by E.P. Thompson, and extended to a conception of 'moral ecology' by Karl Jacoby. It also suggests,contraDoreen Massey, that the identity-based place theory of the phenomenological tradition is compatible with a conception of places as sites of conflicted meaning, and that it is wrong to assume the vector of change within place to be progressive; rather it is as likely to conduce to a loss of individual and collective agency
Cohort · Ethnography · Geography · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Ecology
Crimes against Nature
Justice, nature, and the geography of difference
Researching Culture
"Place" as an Integrating Concept in Natural Resource Politics
Crisis, change, and institutions in forest management
Decentralization or privatization of environmental governance? Forest conflict and bioregional assessment in Australia
Fighting over the Forests
An ethics of the local
On the Idea of the Moral Economy
The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,19 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2022 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |